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jdalyasc_295749
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Aug 31, 2018

F5 LTM source address persistence is 5 hours too long?

We have an web application that we are currently using source address persistence on the virtual server. The application is set to keep connections active for 5 hours. This seems long to me but this ...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Aug 31, 2018

If the client supports cookies, the easiest option would simply be to enable default cookie persistence. Regular cookie persistence embeds the load balancing decision in the cookie itself. Using the jsession cookie would require you to store the state on the BIG-IP, which isn’t really better than IP persistence.